High school: enjoy while you are at it!

I came into his room which smelled like never having been cleaned up before and there he was,

sitting in a chair in front of the computer laughing his lungs out while chatting with his

friends! Pablito Iramain '07, a former CSP student, wouldn't stop remembering his mischievous

time with his buddies at school.

"I miss school so much” he says nostalgically, but then in a cheerful way “I loved it!”. Those

were his first thoughts in my interview about his life in his school years. He told me his

favourite subject was Geography and that he wasn't very good at English... When I asked him to

tell me an annecdote he burst out lughing! Some of them are playing cards under the desk in

Ricky's class or sleeping in the morning classes, but during the last year he and his friends

spent their free time playing jokes on almost anyone who got in their way. Of course he did study

something, but he had so much fun doing what he wasn't supposed to.

So now you may wonder what this guy's life is like nowadays. He lives with his mom and dad and

three sisters in Yerba Buena. He is studying Agronomy at UNT and he admits that even though he

wasn't a very good student, school was really useful for his career. In his free time he likes

listening to pop or rock music, doing mountain biking and hanging out with his friends. He also

gave me a little advice: “ just enjoy school while you are at it, otherwise, you'll regret about

it later”. It was really fun doing this interview and I don't know about you but I'm taking his

advice!

Constanza E. Bossi

An Artist Facing Science

Classical music and expressive moves on the floor are what I first sensed when I entered Ana

Craig's room. She is prepairing herself for a corporal expression presentation and now her high

school time lies far behind in her memory.As i ask her, she tries to remember those hard times,

but she doesn't stop her dance and asks me to repeat my questions.



Ana Craig who is in fact my sister, wasn't sure of being interviewed, but as I insisted

she gave in and we got started. She confessed that her wort memories lie in school times, but she

did have something for me. Ana graduated in 2002 from Saint Patrick's school where seh took part

of the Junior Achievement project which that year consisted in making chutney.the whole group was

to produce it at home and try to sell it, and that's what the actually did! "It was hard work,

here at home with mountains of fruit to cook" she adds.



Her life nowadays is quite different. She told me that after her practice she had to go to

a flute lesson in her music school which would hopofully take her to another concert such as the

one she has already had with Ensemble Tornasol a few months ago in the Alberdi Theater. Since her

first yeras she has spent a lot of her time playing the recorder (plastic little flute) and

that's where her flute abilities come from. Her art classes inspired her to do more and expand

the limits of her imagination, but her path started to change course when science got in her

head. Her will to get to know bacteriaand different uses of substances pushed her to major in

Biotechnology. She is actually working on her final thesis at the moment.



Now that she has hot her hobbie, music, art and career, her goal is to become a good flute

player, which she hopes will take her travelling around the world performing infront of huge

crowds. She hopes to get a job after finishing her studies and then form a family.

Alumni Vignette: Lucia Piñero

By: Lucas Caram


Discussions over beauty always end up the same: she is the prettiest. Everybody knows her at school because of her water color eyes and her beautiful smile. When I asked Lucía Piñero to do this interview, she was in the library working on the report cards of seventh grade and having a laugh with Daniel Santos while outside you could hear students at break.

First, she wasn’t sure of answering some questions about her personal life but insisting a little I convinced her. Throughout the interview she was smiling because of two reasons, one is she like helping others, and the other is that thinking of the questions I made, she remembered all the adventures of the time she was studying here.” I graduated in 1999” she told me with a melancholic tone adding that the time she had spent here is probably the funniest time of her life.

After finishing High school, Lucia decided to continue studying her favorite subject, English. At present, she has to take only a few exams to complete her career. As we all know apart from working hard to became a English teacher, she is also working in her old school as a teaching assistant which makes her acquire more experience because doing this job she can see what working at a school is like.

Finally, I asked if she could share an anecdote and she rapidly answered: “Yes, one day we were having Math with Mr. Ricardo Barcat, aka Ricki. We were working hard without making any noise when suddenly Ricki broke the silence with a sharp shout “Who stole my glasses?” He was really angry because he thought that we were playing a joke hiding his glasses so he punished us keeping us inside the classroom during break. Later, he realized that his glasses were in his pocket but break was over by then.”

To conclude I thank Lucia for sharing her experience with us .I am sure that she will finish her career soon and I hope to have her as an English teacher.